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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 48: (search)
l observations for fixing the position of the ship, informed me at the same time that I was experiencing a south-easterly current; the current bending more and more toward the east, as I proceeded south, until in the parallel of 40°, it ran due east. The rate of this current was from thirty to fifty miles per day. This was undoubtedly a branch of the great Agulhas current. If the reader will inspect a map, he will find that the North Indian Ocean is bounded wholly by tropical countries—Hindostan, Beloochistan, and Arabia to the Red Sea, and across that sea, by Azan and Zanguebar. The waters in this great bight of the ocean are intensely heated by the fervor of an Indian and African sun, and flow off in quest of cooler regions through the Mozambique Channel. Passing thence over the Agulhas Bank, which lies a short distance to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, they reach that Cape, as the Agulhas current. Here it divides into two main prongs or branches; one prong pursuing a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
e vastness of their transactions was measured, not by tonnage, but by counting caravans and camels. But now, for the wilderness commerce substituted the sea; for camels, merchantmen; for caravans, fleets and convoys. The ancients were restricted in the objects of commerce; for how could rice be brought across continents from the Ganges, or sugar from Bengal? But now commerce gathered every production from the East and the West; tea, sugar, and coffee, from the plantations of China and Hindostan; masts from American forests; furs from Hudson's Bay; men from Africa. With the expansion of commerce, the forms of business were changing. Of old, no dealers in credit existed between the merchant and the producer. The Chap. XX.} Greeks and Romans were hard-money men; their language has no word for bank notes or currency; with them there was no stock market, no brokers' board, no negotiable scrip of kingdom or commonwealth. Public expenses were borne by direct taxes, or by loans f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
the fugitives, and is, perhaps, now on the point of expiring,—their worship, their division into nobles and plebeians, their bloody funereal rites, —invite conjecture, and yet so nearly resemble in charracter the distinctions of other tribes, that they do but irritate, without satisfying, curiosity. The cost of defending Louisiana exceeding the returns from its commerce and from grants of land, the company of the Indies, seeking wealth by conquests or traffic on the coast of Guinea and Hindostan, solicited 1732 leave to surrender the Mississippi wilderness; and, on the tenth of April, 1732, the jurisdiction and control over its commerce reverted to the crown of France. The company had held possession of Louisiana for fourteen years, which were its only years of comparative prosperity. The early extravagant hopes had not subsided till emigrants had reached its soil; and the emigrants, being once established, took care of themselves. In 1735, the Canadian Bienville reappeared to
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Publishing houses in the South. (search)
rilliant spoke we are accustomed to see, up to two inches or more in diameter. It the opinion which every where prevails in India, is a correct one--and it appears to be sustained by experience #x2014; there could be no better investment than to plant small diamonds in a proper soil, and allow them to grow. Fifteen or twenty years, according to the experience of Golconda mines, ought to be time enough for an abundant harvest. The most noted regions for the production of diamonds are Hindustan, Borneo, Brazil, and the Ural Mountains in Russia, which are also rich in gold and platina. A few diamonds have been found in the United States; and one, it is said, in Ireland. The diamond mines, or, more, property, washings, in Brazil are worked by negro slaves. Happy the negro who finds one of any considerable size. If it weighs more than seventeen and one half carats, he is crowned with a garland of flowers, and carried by his fellow-slaves in a triumphal procession to the manager,
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ho for Hyde Park! (search)
ficent landed estate; thanks to its inexhaustible mines, to its admirable system of internal communications, conducted by eighty six canals and seventy lines of railroad, in all, the general income of the British Empire is nearly £500,000,000 sterling. Its power among the nations is rendered manifest by the number and greatness of its fleets and dominions. In Europe it possesses the lesser islands which adjoin Great Britain--Ireland, Gibraltar, Malta, and the Ionian islands; in Asia, Hindustan, with its tributary States; Ceylon, and its forced allies in Scinde and the Punjaub — that is, almost an entire world; in Africa, Sierra Leone, with its dependencies, the Isle of France, Fernando Po, the Cape, and St. Helena; In America, Upper and Lower Canada, the West Indies, Bermuda, Newfoundland, and all the lesser provinces of North America; in Oceanic, the whole of New Holland and New Zealand; Norfolk island and New Caledonia. These united territories contain a hundred and fifty mi
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
s of that journey, and was taken prisoner by the king of the Cannon Ball islands, and with all his crew was cast into chains and slavery, where he died an ignominious natural death, with his whole crew, leaving not one to tell the tale. Peace to his ashes and their'n. "Sir, the discovery of this continent was the greatest invention in the year 1492. Fernandez island was the stepping-stone to the settlement of this country, the United States, North and South America, Oregon and Asia, Hindoostan and Beloochistan, England and Turkey, France and China, and many others too numerous to mention. Behold these countries, traversed by steamboats, railroads and telegraphs, and ask yourself would these things have been, if it had not been for Columbus; and your reply would certainly be, 'Certainly not, sir.' If it had not been for Columbus, General Washington would not have been a man; but suppose he had, what then? What did Washington ever do that was a great benefit to his country? The
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
that it is completed.--From a sketch which we find in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the reader will perceive, at a glance, the manner in which English interests will be affected by this great work. It leads from the port of Said, on the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea, to the port of Suez, on the Red Sea. Across the latter there is unrestricted passage to the Straits of Babelmandel, through which entrance is obtained to the great Indian Ocean, which washes the shores of Arabia, Persia, Hindoostan and the Burman Empire, and which furnishes passage by the Straits of Malacca to the Pacific Ocean, and along the whole Eastern coast by Siam, China and Japan, clear up to the Russian possessions. The whole of this immense country has hitherto been accessible to Southern Europeans by passing out of the Mediterranean Sea, through the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailing down the entire western coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope, and then northwest to the entrance of the Indian Ocean